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Increasing postural safety in a simulated office setting using real-time freeze-frame feedback

Posted on:2010-09-21Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:City University of New YorkCandidate:Tittelbach, DanielleFull Text:PDF
GTID:1448390002982609Subject:Psychology
Abstract/Summary:
Behavioral safety interventions identify safe or at-risk components of individual job performance and use interventions focused on training, goal-setting, feedback, prompts, and recently, self-monitoring procedures to reduce at-risk performances. Modern technologies have introduced real-time video procedures as an addition to the self-monitoring techniques, which may increase the salience and effectiveness of the self-monitoring procedure. The present research used a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline across-participants experimental design to assess the effectiveness of real-time freeze-frame feedback on postural safety of computer users. Results showed that freeze-frame feedback effectively increased safety performance from baseline to intervention for most targeted postures. Contrary to expectations, the addition of a self-monitoring component for half of the participants led to a decrease in safety performance across most postural targets.
Keywords/Search Tags:Safety, Postural, Feedback, Performance, Real-time, Freeze-frame, Self-monitoring
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